RESEARCH PAPERS

GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, AND GENE ENGINEERING

Molecular Cloning and Functional Analysis of minD Gene from Streptomyces lavendulae ATCC25233
Tu Hoang Khue Nguyen, Takanori Kumagai, Yasuyuki Matoba, Toshinobu Suzaki, and Masanori Sugiyama

ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Production of Bacterial Endoglucanase from Pretreated Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch by Bacillus pumilus EB3
Hidayah Ariffin, Mohd Ali Hassan, Umi Kalsom Md Shah, Norhafizah Abdullah, Farinazleen Mohd Ghazali, and Yoshihito Shirai

Peroxidase-Active Cell Free Extract from Onion Solid Wastes: Biocatalytic Properties and Putative Pathway of Ferulic Acid Oxidation
Ayman El Agha, Dimitris P. Makris, and Panagiotis Kefalas

Improving Enzyme Immobilization in Mesocellular Siliceous Foams by Microwave Irradiation
Anming Wang, Mingqing Liu, Hua Wang, Cheng Zhou, Zhiqiang Du, Shemin Zhu, Shubao Shen, and Pingkai Ouyang

Purification and Characterization of a New Aldehyde Oxidase from Pseudomonas sp. AIU 362
Yasutaka Sasaki, Kimiyasu Isobe, Michihiko Kataoka, Jun Ogawa, Akira Iwasaki, Junzo Hasegawa, and Sakayu Shimizu

A Novel L-Amino Acid Ligase from Bacillus licheniformis
Kuniki Kino, Atsushi Noguchi, Yuji Nakazawa, and Makoto Yagasaki

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Various Oils and Detergents Enhance the Microbial Production of Farnesol and Related Prenyl Alcohols
Masayoshi Muramatsu, Chikara Ohto, Shusei Obata, Eiji Sakuradani, and Sakayu Shimizu

BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Decrease in Hydrogen Sulfide Content during the Final Stage of Beer Fermentation Due to Involvement of Yeast and Not Carbon Dioxide Gas Purging
Kaneo Oka, Teruhiko Hayashi, Nobuya Matsumoto, and Hideshi Yanase

Water Absorption Characteristics and Structural Properties of Rice for Sake Brewing
Tomochika Mizuma, Yoshifumi Kiyokawa, and Yoshinori Wakai

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Polysulfide Reduction Using Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation System
Yui Takahashi, Koichi Suto, Chihiro Inoue, and Tadashi Chida

Rapid Conversion of Toluene by an Acinetobacter sp. Tol 5 Mutant Showing Monolayer Adsorption to Water-Oil Interface
Hisami Watanabe, Yasunori Tanji, Hajime Unno, and Katsutoshi Hori

Lactic Acid Bacteria-Enclosing Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Microcapsules as Soil Bioamendment
Takayuki Takei, Masahiro Yoshida, Yasuo Hatate, Koichiro Shiomori, and Shiro Kiyoyama

Transfer of Antibiotic Multiresistant Plasmid RP4 from Escherichia coli to Activated Sludge Bacteria
Satoshi Soda, Hidetaka Otsuki, Daisuke Inoue, Hirofumi Tsutsui, Kazunari Sei, and Michihiko Ike

Efficient Bioethanol Production from Xylose by Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae Requires High Activity of Xylose Reductase and Moderate Xylulokinase Activity
Akinori Matsushika and Shigeki Sawayama

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Adsorption Characteristics of Various Proteins to a Titanium Surface
Koreyoshi Imamura, Miyuki Shimomura, Shungo Nagai, Megumi Akamatsu, and Kazuhiro Nakanishi

Angiotensin-I Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitory Mechanism of Tripeptides Containing Aromatic Residues
Yuka Kobayashi, Tadashi Yamauchi, Tomohisa Katsuda, Hideki Yamaji, and Shigeo Katoh

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Micropatterned Organoid Culture of Rat Hepatocytes and HepG2 Cells
Ryuhei Mori, Yusuke Sakai, and Kohji Nakazawa

In Vitro and In Vivo Tumor Suppressive Activity Induced by Human Telomerase Transcriptase-Targeting Antisense Oligonucleotides Mediated by Cationic Liposomes
Min Han, Jin-Liang Chen, Ying Hu, Cai-Li He, Wu-Ping Shuai, Jian-Heng Yu, Hai-Liang Chen, Wen-Quan Liang, Tadanori Mayumi, Nakagawa Shinsaku, and Jian-Qing Gao

MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Rare Sugar D-Allose Enhances Anti-tumor Effect of 5-Fluorouracil on the Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Line HuH-7
Fuminori Yamaguchi, Kazuyo Kamitori, Keiko Sanada, Mariko Horii, Youyi Dong, Li Sui, and Masaaki Tokuda